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...style, and his presidency will ultimately be judged by what he achieved or failed to achieve, not by the way he went about it. Moreover, a President cannot deal with every question personally, and so he must have a staff to screen people and problems he is to confront; thus it becomes a mark of skill in Government for anyone to discover a way to get presidential attention. Says Jerome Rosow, an Assistant Secretary of Labor: "If there is a palace guard, you have to learn to deal with it. That's just the way things are. The guys...
...Hill. Most students concentrated their attention on Representatives from their own districts, as with a group of North Carolinians who called on Congressman James T. Broyhill. The lobbyists generally received polite audiences with their Representatives, and even some assurances of support for antiwar measures. Only occasionally did they confront a member like Georgia's Benjamin Blackburn, who argued briefly with a University of Minnesota law student and then snapped: "Get out of my damn office." The primary aim of the lobbyists was to help along the Hatfield-McGovern amendment (see page 16), which would require withdrawal...
...longer leads what remains of the strike, the steering committee's internal machinations are now immaterial. What is crucially important if the strike is to survive in any way that means more than a reprieve from exams is an understanding of the committee's insistence that the refusal to confront the university is antithetical to a fight for the four demands. Even a brief look at each of the demands illustrates that, like it or not, Harvard University and institutions like it are bastions that must be fought if our aspirations for a better country are to come to more...
...Seale and the rest of the Black Panther Party. The racism of much of the striking community goes so deep that we often don't even realize how badly we've neglected this demand. But there is another implication of ignoring the second demand. We are apparently unwilling to confront repression when our proximity to it would mean a real fight. It is easy to make a verbal commitment to the Panthers, because fighting for them seems far away. But when it comes to fighting political repression on the Harvard campus, where the situation today calls for a higher level...
...That is a very, very complicated question. One place of it is that people working in the theatre must confront themselves with the question. That's the first step. I don't think it can be summed up and answered neatly...